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EDUGthe European Dewey community
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It‘s about
• the story of EDUG,
• its structure,• all the members,• their activities,
• and what will be …
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EDUG history
Around 2000• French, Italian, German translations
of DDC 21 and 22 existed, many other translations of other versions were in use in Europe
• more and more Europen libraries adopted the DDC
• need to share experience and to cooperate
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The beginning
In 2007 the European Dewey Users Group (EDUG) was established to
• promote professional interests of European DDC users
• encourage the development of techniques, applications and documentation of translations
• coordinate proposals of the DDC according to European interests
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025.431094
025.431094 is the DDC notation for the use of the Dewey Decimal Classification in Europe
(025.431=Dewey Decimal Classification) + (09=standard subdivision for places) + (4=Europe)
• This is our common interest!EDUG Symposium 2014, Reykjavik
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Operational structures
• EDUG is governed by a cooperation agreement (Bylaws)
• The General Meeting of members, held at least once a year
• The Executive Committee, elected every other year
• The Working Groups
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EDUG membership
• Membership is free• Three categories of members:
– Institutional members– Affiliated members– Individual members
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Institutional members 2014• Biblioteca nazionale centrale di
Firenze• Bibliothque nationale de France• British Library• Deutsche Nationalbibliothek• Kunglika Biblioteket• Landsbókasafn Íslands –
Háskólabókasafn• Nasjonalbiblioteket• Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek• Schweizerische NationalbibliothekEDUG Symposium 2014, Reykjavik
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Affiliated members 2014• Bibliotheks- und Archivwesen der
Universität Wien (Austria)• KHT Library (Sweden)• Linköping University Library (Sweden)• Menntaskolinn vid Sund Library,
Reykjavik (Iceland)• Oberoesterreichische Landesbibliothek
(Austria)• OCLC EMEA B.V (Netherlands)
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Affiliated members 2014
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• Scottish Library and Information Council (Great Britain)
• Stockholm University Library (Sweden)• Umea University Library (Sweden)• Université de la Méditerranée (France)• University of Oslo Library (Norway)• Verbundzentrale des GBV, Göttingen
(Germany)
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Indivudual members 2014
• Peter Werling (PANSOFT GmbH)
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EDUG map
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Annual meetingsand symposia
– 2007Bern– 2008Frankfurt– 2009Vienna– 2010Alexandria– 2011Stockholm– 2012Boston Spa– 2013Oslo– 2014Reykjavik
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Working groups 340– Active from 2007 to 2012– to improve the 340 Law provision for
legal systems in Europe rooted in civil law
– In November 2008 the EPC discussed selected proposals at their EPC 130 meeting
– Last discussions and proposals concerned 346 Marriage law
– Input in DDC 23: updates for European Union, criminal courts, juristic acts
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Working groups 370– Active from 2008 to 2014– to improve the 370 Education
provision for works in the discipline education in Europe
– Issues were besides others primary school curriculum, comparative education, and lately 374 Adult education
– Input in DDC 23: improved framework for levels of education, kinds of schools, policy issues and primary education
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Working groups 930– Active from 2008 to 2013– to improve the 930 Archaeology
provision for works in the discipline archaeology in Europe and works on European antiquities
– Main topics were proposals for geographic expansions in 931-939 and Table 2-3 as well as time periods in 930
– Input in DDC 23: expansion of geographic areas and historical periods
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Working groups IT– Active from 2007 on– to monitor projects and develop use
cases for the application of DDC to online information services in Europe
– In 2010 the WG launched an online survey of applications of the DDC to help EDUG to plan its activities
– The focus of interest in recent years is on Dewey as linked data
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EDUG homepage http://www.slainte.org.uk/edug/index.htm
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Plans for 2014-2015• Support for the national DDC
communities• Communication, promotion,
development of DDC in Europe• Annual Meeting and symposium
2015• Establishment of new working
groups
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Mapping working group – To provide a platform to share
knowledge, experience and expertise gained in projects mapping different subject headings and local classification systems to Dewey, and to provide support to similar initiatives in Europe
– The 1st meeting will include reports on the completed projects CrissCross and SAB-DDC mapping as well as on ongoing projects "Realfagstermer" to Dewey in Norway and "coli-conc“, a DDC-RVK mapping project in Germany
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Thank you for your attention!
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